David Bordwell
David Jay Bordwell (; July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian. After receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1973, he wrote more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including ''Narration in the Fiction Film'' (1985), ''Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema'' (1988), ''Making Meaning'' (1989), and ''On the History of Film Style'' (1997).With his wife Kristin Thompson, Bordwell wrote the textbooks ''Film Art'' (1979) and ''Film History'' (1994). ''Film Art'', in its 12th edition as of 2019, is still used as a text in introductory film courses. With aesthetics philosopher Noël Carroll, Bordwell edited the anthology ''Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies'' (1996), a polemic on the state of contemporary film theory. His largest work was ''The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960'' (1985), written in collaboration with Thompson and Janet Staiger. Several of his more influential articles on theory, narrative, and style were collected in ''Poetics of Cinema'' (2007), named in homage to the famous anthology of Russian formalist film theory ''Poetika Kino'', edited by Boris Eikhenbaum in 1927.
Bordwell spent nearly the entirety of his career as a professor of film at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, retiring in 2004 and becoming the Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts. Film theorists who wrote their dissertations under his advisement include Edward Branigan, Murray Smith, and Carl Plantinga. He and Thompson maintained the blog [http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog "Observations on film art"] for their ruminations on cinema. Provided by Wikipedia
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Figures traced in light : on cinematic staging by Bordwell, David
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Making meaning inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema by Bordwell, David
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Poetics of cinema by Bordwell, David
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The way Hollywood tells it : story and style in modern movies by Bordwell, David
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Reinventing Hollywood : how 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling by Bordwell, David
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Film art : an introduction by Bordwell, David
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Film art : an introduction by Bordwell, David
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Film art : an introduction by Bordwell, David
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The Rhapsodes : how 1940s critics changed American film culture by Bordwell, David
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Film art : an introduction by Bordwell, David
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The cinema of Eisenstein by Bordwell, David
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On the history of film style by Bordwell, David
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Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema by Bordwell, David
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1991
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Filmguide to La passion de Jeanne d'Arc by Bordwell, David
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Poetics of cinema by Bordwell, David
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Planet Hong Kong : popular cinema and the art of entertainment by Bordwell, David
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Film art : an introduction by Bordwell, David
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The classical Hollywood cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960 by Bordwell, David
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